[buug] Berkeley Installfest, Talks, Potluck- 1) Structure

[PR]

I just found a cool site, imagine what a few minutes of googling can 
produce ;)

anyfoo,,, if you havent heard, this seems to be the site to find out 
meetings all over the world.

www.meetup.com
have a peek. see if this site works as a resource

Oly

john_re wrote:
> OK, we've got 3 people who have volunteered to help on this (one in
> LongBeach). That's enough to move to the question - is anyone else
> interested in _attending_?
>
> This is part 1 of 2 emails. This is some specifics about the proposed
> basics of the event (and a request for your improving suggestions).
> Part2 (following email) is about "are you interested in attending".
>
> =====
> The plan would be to hold a get together each month on the first
> Saturday (or maybe Sunday?), perhaps 12N-6PM. In Berkeley (or maybe San
> Francisco?).
>
> It should be a fun & educational & productive & social event.
>
> It would have 3 parts:
> 1) Installfest - new & experienced users welcome.
> 2) Talks (perhaps four to six talks of 15min to 1hr each
>    about Distros, Kernel, Hardware, ApplicationSW, Programming, etc)
> 3) PotLuck - bring some food, maybe barbecue, talk about whatever.
>
> Maybe we could video stream the talks to other groups around the world
> who could hold similar events in their locality.
>
> For the 1st meeting (tentatively June 7 Sat) some talk possibilities
> are:
> 1) Difference between Ubuntu8.4 & Debian
> 2) OLPC - Sugar OS project
> 3) Google Summer of Code - how you can help
> 4) PGP & personal keysigning
> 5) Mozilla 3 - the beta's features & how to help
>   - the "show me the code" session?
> 6) Python08 conference highlights
> 7) LinuxPicnic (in SiValley) preparations/planning/how to help
>
> What other topics are hot now & would be good to have talks on?
> What would you like to hear a talk on?
> Would you like to _give_ a talk? What subject?
>
> Would anyone like to volunteer to be speaker coordinator?
> Perhaps there's a way to let speaker suggestion & selection be done by
> the group. Just post ideas/speakers to the group maillist, & if some #
> (2? 5?) of people reply saying "yes", then that speaker is OK'd by the
> group to present.
>
> What suggestions to implement or improve these ideas do you have?
>
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> Next: Please read the following RSVP% email, & respond.
>
> Thank you. :)
>   
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